Weekly Chatter (4/5- 4/11)

Neverland Scraps said:
I bet it was strange seeing so many people wearing masks, but I'm so glad people are starting to listen to the CDC about wearing them, even if they aren't the best at keeping anything away, but more so just from spreading if you sneeze, etc.

oooh, now I'm curious what you got at Home Depot!


I can't even imagine how that's changed how you work :( I hope over time it gets easier and easier for you to do your job at home.


Are your doctors even making appointments? Maybe because we sent a great deal of of doctors to NYC, but they are not scheduling any doctor appointments, not even vaccines for the children that are over 6 months old. Everything is done over the phone or through tele-health. Let us know if you are able to make an appointment for your kiddos and if they wore a mask!!
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Haha! I got the shower head, and knob for the upstairs bathroom. Nothing exciting. Although, it is pretty cool. It's a fairly large shower head with a magnetic handheld sprayer.

I only got the appointment because they have to keep close watch on my clotting. They've moved this particular office off-site so there isn't a chance of catching the virus. (well, I guess the chance is limited?)
 
Neverland Scraps said:
You guys, I got snippy with my son's teacher and I kind of feel really badly about it. But on a positive, the school emailed us and said that parents were complaining about how long the kids were online doing schoolwork. So they cut my son's 7+ hour day down to 2.5 hours and my daughter's day down to 4.5 hours a day. They also are giving them Thursday and Friday off to allow teachers to redo their lesson plans. I'm so happy and hope with the scaled back version schooling will become not so much a headache and actually something more accommodating for everyone!

On a plus, my son's homeschool curriculum came over the weekend. He sat and worked through 20 pages of reading, writing and language with me. He also told me that he doesn't want to stop learning this material until he's able to read and write! He said when he goes in to second grade his teachers will be shocked that he isn't struggling any more. Now fingers crossed we can get there these next few months as we work through his books, on top of finishing up the digital learning through the school.
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That's such great news, Wendy!! I hope once they redo the lesson plans, it's not the extreme that you were having to do!

littlekiwi said:
Rae - totally get the exchange rate, ours here in NZ is awful too, think $1NZ is only stretching to between $0.50-0.60USD for probably a month or so now.

We are about 2 weeks into a 4(maybe longer) national lockdown and I’ve been sick for 10 days of that - about a week with a cold then the last few days it’s been an asthma flare up so there hasn’t been too much action here
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Oh, Jennifer! I hope you start feeling much better soon!!

JillW said:
I'm still working on location and everyday I wish I didn't have to. I work in a small office area, but have to be around the workers on the distribution floor several times a day. We have masks and gloves to wear. My hands are a hot mess from washing them so often! Morale is pretty low right now, our sister distribution center, in New Jersey has all but shut down, so their orders are filtering through our center. Tons of overtime. (Thankfully, not for me!). Late last week we were told that the company will no longer match 4% of our 401K contributions and there will be no merit increases this year. Talk about taking the wind of our everyone's sails! Work is just not a great place to be for me!

I haven't felt 100% for a week or so - no fever, no sore throat, just feeling 'blah'. I contribute it to stress. And honestly, once I'm home I feel so much better! I'm missing seeing our little family (son, DIL and 3 grandkiddos). We have facetimed a few times, but it's not the same as loving on them!

Thanks again for starting this Wendy - I think it's wonderful to stay connected and realize we aren't in this alone!!!
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That doesn't sound good, Jill :( I'm sorry it's been so rough. Did I read somewhere that you're close to retirement?

I totally understand missing the grandkiddos! That's really rough. Hang in there! :wub:

JillW said:
Just got out of a meeting and starting tomorrow I'll be working from home - every other week. Currently there are 6 of us in a small office - when we are working on location there will only be 2 of us. I feel relieved!
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That's great news, Jill!!! Yay!! :w00t:

Leablahblah said:
I would call and ask your pediatrician ahead of time.
I called today to ask if we should cancel my almost one-year old appointment but they said we shouldn't and they do wear a mask and ask that we wear one too. How in the world will Leonie abide by that? She will take it right off. Maybe she only meants me... I'm so scared, I don't want to take her to the pediatrician.
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Oh my goodness! Lea, I can't believe Leonie is a year old! My daughter has been doing their well-baby checkups virtually.
 
Neverland Scraps said:
Do you have insurance on your pups? That usually helps with some of the cost from incidents like that.
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We don't because we adopted both pups after the age where you could opt in, but luckily, we do go to a very reasonable vet. We've been really lucky so far; it's not anything that broke the bank either time.
 
Wendy, your son's school is the WORST. Is it like a prep school for the Ivy League or something??

My second grader's teacher is getting onto me because i'm not uploading her assignments every day, and if it weren't for my rule-following husband, I would tell her that I just do not have the emotional energy for Camscanner and be done with it. I feel like I'm doing her a favor to supervise Ari's learning in the first place. Schools should just be taking what they can get right now, imo.

I've been doing okay, but they just told us we won't go back to school this year, and I'm NOT OKAY. I cried a lot yesterday and stared into space. Ariana brought me a plate of oranges & chocolate chip cookies yesterday to make me feel better, and it did, but the idea of being stuck at home doing school for the next six weeks makes me really bummed. I know how much I have to be thankful for, but I have all these feelings with no where to go.
 
We've now been quarantining and doing school & work at home for 3 1/2 weeks. It's such a short amount of time but also feels so incredibly long.

I am really struggling with food. I have a bad relationship & history with eating, anyways, and I was doing SO WELL from January 2 - March 14 with eating better and exercising... and then this all hit and all of my motivation left and my depression set up shop. I'm trying not to spiral by reminding myself it's okay to just survive, and not thrive, during a global pandemic.

I cooked dinner all the time before this happened, so that's not new, but I'm used to shopping on Mondays for kid lunches/food & M-W dinner, buying healthy microwave meals for my lunches on the way to work Tuesdays, going to my parents' for dinner on Thursday (which I still helped cook but did not have to plan or purchase), grabbing pizza on Fridays, and then shopping Friday nights or Saturday mornings for Saturday-Monday. Having to plan an entire week of lunches & dinners has been a stretch for me, and then having to plan "back-up meals" in case they're out of something has been hard, too. I spent 2 hours (!!) on the grocery store website this past weekend slooooooowly adding food to my cart and then had to change stores twice in order to get a store that had hamburger available. That store is a 20+ minute drive across town, and then they still didn't have a handful of things on my list when I picked up the next day including flour and potatoes.

The kids attend a Title 1 school so it didn't even have an e-learning process in place when this happened. I have to mark their "attendance" on a Google form every e-learning day (currently twice a week and moving into three next week) and then pull their assignments from a Google Drive folder for their school & grade. This has honestly been a blessing for my 5yo as his teacher & classroom were a hot mess & he spent most of his time doing independent learning (because the teacher was dealing with the other students' behaviors) or being punished (heads down, shorter recesses, etc.) because of the other students' behaviors. He was thrilled when his school shut down & equally excited when school was cancelled for the rest of the year. He is still learning to read so balancing my working from home with his need for help in completing his schoolwork has been a challenge. The 10yo had an incredible teacher who has been in regular contact with parents and students since this began, and I have just told the 10yo to be responsible for herself and do the work so hopefully she's getting it done. I'm not even trying to carry the weight & burden of being my children's teacher; they will be fine even if they learn nothing for the next month.

My 5yo's birthday (and my nephew's) is in a couple weeks, and these will be our first "quarantine birthdays." I'm trying to brainstorm some things to do to still celebrate & make my kiddo feel special without breaking the social distancing rules or going someplace.

Work has been interesting but hopefully we will find that new rhythm soon. I'm supposed to work around 28 hours a week T-F and since this began, I've worked more than that including Mondays, nights, and weekends. Much of that has to do with new technology and other staff members learning how to use it so hopefully that will work itself out soon. I have been tasked with learning how to use Adobe Premiere so we'll see how that goes! I'm guessing this will last into mid or late May so I hope I can justify purchasing a new computer and writing it off as a business expense since the one I have is several years old and not really up to the challenge of working on it full-time with all the different software and apps my work is currently using.

Oh, and this was our Disney trip week with my kiddos' first time in Florida, first time on a plane, and first time at Disney. I just shake my head when I think about all the time I spent in January and February researching and reserving and planning... for nothing. With the parks actually closed, we have until July 2021 to reschedule (no refund on the park tickets or plane tickets --- just credit) but it's still really disappointing.
 
craftytam said:
Oh my goodness! Lea, I can't believe Leonie is a year old! My daughter has been doing their well-baby checkups virtually.
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What about vaccines though? That's the part I'm concerned about. I know we could postpone probably but it will delay everything... but for your grandson he's so young it would delay so much! I don't know if that's even an option.

Neverland Scraps said:
These were just shared with me through my Facebook Page Messenger since I just posted my layouts from Jennifer's FWP today. I laughed at them and thought I'd share them with you

Watch First:
https://youtu.be/MMBh-eo3tvE

Watch Second:
https://youtu.be/1aAnPFeo11s
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These are great Wendy!
 
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I'm really heavy-hearted today...One of my friends passed away yesterday from the virus. Her husband had passed away five days earlier and both of them never knew the other had passed away. Their adult-son is still in the ICU trying to fight the virus. I've known this woman for 20+ years. She's been such a wonderful friend through the years and I hate to imagine how she struggled in those last few days. I'm broken today. I just needed to write it, make it real and get it off my chest so I can stop crying for the loss of an amazing woman who made everyone family. :crying:
 
Wow, so much going on with everyone. Things have definitely been challenging in this new world we live in! Hugs to all of you!

We went from trying to keep track of everyone's schedule to getting excited when someone actually has something on the calendar! LOL We had a severe storm last night and several neighbors lost trees. One lost 3 huge trees, thankfully they had little damage.

Next door a 60' pine tree fell and just grazed the house. They were so lucky!
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And another house across the lake had a tree fall on their house. It crashed through the roof and trapped them in bed. Thankfully they were ok, but the fire department had to come help them get out. Here's pics she sent.

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Lots of power out around us but we didn't lose power. We have a mess, lots of branches and debris but no damage.
 
Neverland Scraps said:
I'm really heavy-hearted today...One of my friends passed away yesterday from the virus. Her husband had passed away five days earlier and both of them never knew the other had passed away. Their adult-son is still in the ICU trying to fight the virus.
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I'm so sorry, Wendy. How awful. It's amazing how some are barely affected and others die. Wishing it were not so. Sending prayers for their son and their family and hugs to you!
 
It is so sad to hear that people are battling this virus on their own and then passing away alone. I have a co-worker that said goodbye to her mother through a walkie talkie.

This virus is so scary
 
Wendy, I'm so sorry. Take your time with your grief. That is so terribly sad.

Cindi, glad y'all are safe. I feel bad for your neighbors! I'm still part of the Facebook page for the neighborhood we lived in previously. One of the houses there burned down a few days ago. I can't imagine dealing with all of that right now in the middle of this pandemic.
 
JillW said:
Just got out of a meeting and starting tomorrow I'll be working from home - every other week. Currently there are 6 of us in a small office - when we are working on location there will only be 2 of us. I feel relieved!
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Yay!!! So glad they are starting to work you from home so that you can continue to be safe!!!

JillW said:
Super cute! When I first read your post I thought YOU'D made them!!! :p
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Noooo!!!!! :cool:

joelsgirl said:
Wendy, your son's school is the WORST. Is it like a prep school for the Ivy League or something??
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It's one of the few in the nation that's part of the DODEA (military), so they have HIGH expectations for their students.

joelsgirl said:
My second grader's teacher is getting onto me because i'm not uploading her assignments every day, and if it weren't for my rule-following husband, I would tell her that I just do not have the emotional energy for Camscanner and be done with it. I feel like I'm doing her a favor to supervise Ari's learning in the first place. Schools should just be taking what they can get right now, imo.

I've been doing okay, but they just told us we won't go back to school this year, and I'm NOT OKAY. I cried a lot yesterday and stared into space. Ariana brought me a plate of oranges & chocolate chip cookies yesterday to make me feel better, and it did, but the idea of being stuck at home doing school for the next six weeks makes me really bummed. I know how much I have to be thankful for, but I have all these feelings with no where to go.
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I'm sorry they aren't going back to school for the remainder of the year. When I read that, I knew you'd be screaming in to your pillow. I wish I could give you a hug, but if that happened, we wouldn't be in this predicament in the first place
 
Neverland Scraps said:
I'm really heavy-hearted today...One of my friends passed away yesterday from the virus. Her husband had passed away five days earlier and both of them never knew the other had passed away. Their adult-son is still in the ICU trying to fight the virus. I've known this woman for 20+ years. She's been such a wonderful friend through the years and I hate to imagine how she struggled in those last few days. I'm broken today. I just needed to write it, make it real and get it off my chest so I can stop crying for the loss of an amazing woman who made everyone family. :crying:
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Oh Wendy.... I'm so sorry for your loss. This is terrible.
 
Neverland Scraps said:
I'm really heavy-hearted today...One of my friends passed away yesterday from the virus. Her husband had passed away five days earlier and both of them never knew the other had passed away. Their adult-son is still in the ICU trying to fight the virus. I've known this woman for 20+ years. She's been such a wonderful friend through the years and I hate to imagine how she struggled in those last few days. I'm broken today. I just needed to write it, make it real and get it off my chest so I can stop crying for the loss of an amazing woman who made everyone family. :crying:
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This is so sad. I'm so sorry Wendy :crying:
 
LeeAndra said:
We've now been quarantining and doing school & work at home for 3 1/2 weeks. It's such a short amount of time but also feels so incredibly long.
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Right?! Doesn't it seem like we've been doing this for a couple of months!

LeeAndra said:
I am really struggling with food. I have a bad relationship & history with eating, anyways, and I was doing SO WELL from January 2 - March 14 with eating better and exercising... and then this all hit and all of my motivation left and my depression set up shop. I'm trying not to spiral by reminding myself it's okay to just survive, and not thrive, during a global pandemic.

I cooked dinner all the time before this happened, so that's not new, but I'm used to shopping on Mondays for kid lunches/food & M-W dinner, buying healthy microwave meals for my lunches on the way to work Tuesdays, going to my parents' for dinner on Thursday (which I still helped cook but did not have to plan or purchase), grabbing pizza on Fridays, and then shopping Friday nights or Saturday mornings for Saturday-Monday. Having to plan an entire week of lunches & dinners has been a stretch for me, and then having to plan "back-up meals" in case they're out of something has been hard, too. I spent 2 hours (!!) on the grocery store website this past weekend slooooooowly adding food to my cart and then had to change stores twice in order to get a store that had hamburger available. That store is a 20+ minute drive across town, and then they still didn't have a handful of things on my list when I picked up the next day including flour and potatoes.
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You got this as far as food and managing your weight! You've done SO well and I know you've developed some amazing habits!!

I'm in the same boat about the food. Our shelves are barren. We usually shop for 3-days out because we don't have room for food in our small fridge/freezer or pantry. I sent my husband out yesterday to pick up 50 things and he came home with maybe 15 of those things saying he tried. It's awful how much stuff is out of stock.


LeeAndra said:
The kids attend a Title 1 school so it didn't even have an e-learning process in place when this happened. I have to mark their "attendance" on a Google form every e-learning day (currently twice a week and moving into three next week) and then pull their assignments from a Google Drive folder for their school & grade. This has honestly been a blessing for my 5yo as his teacher & classroom were a hot mess & he spent most of his time doing independent learning (because the teacher was dealing with the other students' behaviors) or being punished (heads down, shorter recesses, etc.) because of the other students' behaviors. He was thrilled when his school shut down & equally excited when school was cancelled for the rest of the year. He is still learning to read so balancing my working from home with his need for help in completing his schoolwork has been a challenge. The 10yo had an incredible teacher who has been in regular contact with parents and students since this began, and I have just told the 10yo to be responsible for herself and do the work so hopefully she's getting it done. I'm not even trying to carry the weight & burden of being my children's teacher; they will be fine even if they learn nothing for the next month.
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I love your laid back approach with their schooling!!

LeeAndra said:
My 5yo's birthday (and my nephew's) is in a couple weeks, and these will be our first "quarantine birthdays." I'm trying to brainstorm some things to do to still celebrate & make my kiddo feel special without breaking the social distancing rules or going someplace.
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We have three birthday's coming up, including a Sweet Sixteen that was supposed to have a birthday party and a sleepover. That's not happening and I told her maybe we can do some sort of fun Sweet Sixteen Photoshoot?

LeeAndra said:
Work has been interesting but hopefully we will find that new rhythm soon. I'm supposed to work around 28 hours a week T-F and since this began, I've worked more than that including Mondays, nights, and weekends. Much of that has to do with new technology and other staff members learning how to use it so hopefully that will work itself out soon. I have been tasked with learning how to use Adobe Premiere so we'll see how that goes! I'm guessing this will last into mid or late May so I hope I can justify purchasing a new computer and writing it off as a business expense since the one I have is several years old and not really up to the challenge of working on it full-time with all the different software and apps my work is currently using.
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Oh I hope you find a new rhythm and get back down to your normal hours. It's always a challenge when technology is involved

LeeAndra said:
Oh, and this was our Disney trip week with my kiddos' first time in Florida, first time on a plane, and first time at Disney. I just shake my head when I think about all the time I spent in January and February researching and reserving and planning... for nothing. With the parks actually closed, we have until July 2021 to reschedule (no refund on the park tickets or plane tickets --- just credit) but it's still really disappointing.
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I'm really glad you are able to postpone your trip and have time to make it happen. I hate that the kiddos can't get to do their vacation, but they will soon when the world is rightside up again!! Are you doing anything fun/interesting instead like watching Onward on Disney Plus or something else?
 
icindi said:
Wow, so much going on with everyone. Things have definitely been challenging in this new world we live in! Hugs to all of you!

We went from trying to keep track of everyone's schedule to getting excited when someone actually has something on the calendar! LOL We had a severe storm last night and several neighbors lost trees. One lost 3 huge trees, thankfully they had little damage.

Next door a 60' pine tree fell and just grazed the house. They were so lucky!

And another house across the lake had a tree fall on their house. It crashed through the roof and trapped them in bed. Thankfully they were ok, but the fire department had to come help them get out. Here's pics she sent.

Lots of power out around us but we didn't lose power. We have a mess, lots of branches and debris but no damage.
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WOW Cindi!!! That's a powerful storm!! I'm so glad your house was spared and that no damage was done. Your poor neighbors!! I can't imagine being stuck in bed underneath all of that. That must have been scary!!!

I'm glad you didn't lose power through all of that and you were/are able to stay connected!

rdjrneace said:
It is so sad to hear that people are battling this virus on their own and then passing away alone. I have a co-worker that said goodbye to her mother through a walkie talkie.

This virus is so scary
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That's really sad, but nice they were able to talk to their loved one through the walkie talkie.

SweetChar said:
Wendy, I'm so sorry. Take your time with your grief. That is so terribly sad.

Cindi, glad y'all are safe. I feel bad for your neighbors! I'm still part of the Facebook page for the neighborhood we lived in previously. One of the houses there burned down a few days ago. I can't imagine dealing with all of that right now in the middle of this pandemic.
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You are right, I can't imagine going through any more than what you are already going through. I hope the insurance company is able to deal with it quickly and they are able to get settled until they can rebuild from the damage.
 
Wendy, that is so terribly sad about your friend and her husband and son. : ( Knowing that they died alone makes is so much sadder. My 95 year old grandfather was septic and in ICU last week, and I couldn't stop crying at the thought of him dying alone and my grandmother just sitting at home waiting for news of his death. But somehow he pulled through and is back home now with hospice. If he dies, I won't be sad because he's lived a full and beautiful life, but at least now he won't be alone.

LeeAndra, I am so sorry that you are losing your momentum. I find myself with the uncontrollable urge to snack all day long and zero urge to exercise. It just all feels so hopeless. I hope you find the will to keep going, or at least to not give it all up.

Cindy, that's so terrible about your neighborhood!! I can't imagine that kind of stress on top of Covid stress. Are hardware stores still open? Wll they be able to get it fixed? All of those things are closed right now, here, so I can't imagine what it would cost to get someone to come and fix it.
 
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LeeAndra said:
We've now been quarantining and doing school & work at home for 3 1/2 weeks. It's such a short amount of time but also feels so incredibly long.
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I'm sorry to read that you're struggling LeeAndra! I do hope you can find the umph you need to continue to eat healthy after working so hard pre-quarantine! Hang in there friend, we're here if you need!
 
Neverland Scraps said:
I'm really heavy-hearted today...One of my friends passed away yesterday from the virus. Her husband had passed away five days earlier and both of them never knew the other had passed away. Their adult-son is still in the ICU trying to fight the virus. I've known this woman for 20+ years. She's been such a wonderful friend through the years and I hate to imagine how she struggled in those last few days. I'm broken today. I just needed to write it, make it real and get it off my chest so I can stop crying for the loss of an amazing woman who made everyone family. :crying:
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Oh Wendy - I just want to hug you! I am so sorry for the loss of your dear friend and her spouse! Praying their son pulls through!
 
icindi said:
And another house across the lake had a tree fall on their house. It crashed through the roof and trapped them in bed. Thankfully they were ok, but the fire department had to come help them get out. Here's pics she sent.
Lots of power out around us but we didn't lose power. We have a mess, lots of branches and debris but no damage.
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WOW! Not at all what anyone needs right about now! I'm so thankful there were no terrible injuries!!
 
Neverland Scraps said:
You guys, I got snippy with my son's teacher and I kind of feel really badly about it. But on a positive, the school emailed us and said that parents were complaining about how long the kids were online doing schoolwork. So they cut my son's 7+ hour day down to 2.5 hours and my daughter's day down to 4.5 hours a day. They also are giving them Thursday and Friday off to allow teachers to redo their lesson plans. I'm so happy and hope with the scaled back version schooling will become not so much a headache and actually something more accommodating for everyone!

On a plus, my son's homeschool curriculum came over the weekend. He sat and worked through 20 pages of reading, writing and language with me. He also told me that he doesn't want to stop learning this material until he's able to read and write! He said when he goes in to second grade his teachers will be shocked that he isn't struggling any more. Now fingers crossed we can get there these next few months as we work through his books, on top of finishing up the digital learning through the school.
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I can't believe some schools are expecting SO much. Our state says not more than 3 hours a day for high school, 30 minutes for preschool, an hour for 2nd and 3rd grade, etc. My son is in middle school though and his teachers are starting to tick me off. I'm in a difficult position because I work for the district and ANY sort of criticism (even constructive) will not be taken well at a time like this. Everyone is so tense and teachers are being very protective of their subjects so no one wants to give any. We are overwhelmed though. We have the advantages of having so many resources. We have good WIFI. We have devices. My kids are not struggling learners. I am in education myself. I know Google Classroom as well as the teachers who are using it. I'm also not in the least intimidated by 8th grade homework. I could teach it myself at this point. However, we are still overwhelmed. He signed into Google Classrooms on my iPad so now I am getting 1001 notifications a day about things teachers have posted, changes that have been made, assignments added, etc. It is ridiculous. They started Monday. They need to lay out the expectations for the week on the first day of the week. If kids only have limited access to devices or WIFI they need to know what is expected and be able to work with that. They don't need to suddenly be told on Wednesday afternoon that the teacher has added two more assignments that are due on Thursday just because they just decided that they should do them. Huh? Ugh.
 
Neverland Scraps said:
I'm really heavy-hearted today...One of my friends passed away yesterday from the virus. Her husband had passed away five days earlier and both of them never knew the other had passed away. Their adult-son is still in the ICU trying to fight the virus. I've known this woman for 20+ years. She's been such a wonderful friend through the years and I hate to imagine how she struggled in those last few days. I'm broken today. I just needed to write it, make it real and get it off my chest so I can stop crying for the loss of an amazing woman who made everyone family. :crying:
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I'm so sorry! :( It is tragic. I wish there were words. What an awful thing for a family to go through. :(

There is so much talk of this being a big hoax and deaths being staged. It blows my mind that people can be so ridiculous. An acquaintance of ours died just over 2 weeks ago. The first in our state (I believe) from Covid. His wife was in quarantine. She stayed away from everyone for 2 weeks. It was officially over on Saturday. She said she didn't feel right and decided not to go out to the store for supplies like she had planned. On Sunday she said she couldn't taste her food well. No other real symptoms. Still though, having lost her husband to Covid, she wanted to be tested. They refused. Said she wasn't symptomatic so why test. She was probably being paranoid. Her son is a doctor and he tried to get her tested. Finally a university medical center agreed to test her. The positive came back today. While she has no real symptoms right now, she could have been out there spreading it. SO awful!
 
Neverland Scraps said:
I'm really heavy-hearted today...One of my friends passed away yesterday from the virus. Her husband had passed away five days earlier and both of them never knew the other had passed away. Their adult-son is still in the ICU trying to fight the virus. I've known this woman for 20+ years. She's been such a wonderful friend through the years and I hate to imagine how she struggled in those last few days. I'm broken today. I just needed to write it, make it real and get it off my chest so I can stop crying for the loss of an amazing woman who made everyone family. :crying:
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I'm so sorry to read this Wendy. I'm so sorry for your loss.
Hugs to you.
 
icindi said:
Wow, so much going on with everyone. Things have definitely been challenging in this new world we live in! Hugs to all of you!

We went from trying to keep track of everyone's schedule to getting excited when someone actually has something on the calendar! LOL We had a severe storm last night and several neighbors lost trees. One lost 3 huge trees, thankfully they had little damage.

Next door a 60' pine tree fell and just grazed the house. They were so lucky!
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6z3FPYEl.jpg


And another house across the lake had a tree fall on their house. It crashed through the roof and trapped them in bed. Thankfully they were ok, but the fire department had to come help them get out. Here's pics she sent.

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FvZiCMdl.jpg


Lots of power out around us but we didn't lose power. We have a mess, lots of branches and debris but no damage.
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I'm so sorry to read that with everything that is going on, you ALSO have to deal with storms and damage and such...
Luckily you are not hurt.
 
icindi said:
Wow, so much going on with everyone. Things have definitely been challenging in this new world we live in! Hugs to all of you!

We went from trying to keep track of everyone's schedule to getting excited when someone actually has something on the calendar! LOL We had a severe storm last night and several neighbors lost trees. One lost 3 huge trees, thankfully they had little damage.

Next door a 60' pine tree fell and just grazed the house. They were so lucky!
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Cindi, WOW! We were in the storms northwest of you, in Medina, and we were definitely cowering in the basement! We came through unscathed, but our old neighborhood downtown had tons of trees and lines down. The pine tree in our old backyard came down perfectly between the two houses behind our old house and crushed some cars in the driveway! They are confirming a tornado went right through town. SO glad to hear you are ok! We lost power and internet, but they are both back now. It could have been so much worse.
 
Neverland Scraps said:
I'm really heavy-hearted today...One of my friends passed away yesterday from the virus. Her husband had passed away five days earlier and both of them never knew the other had passed away. Their adult-son is still in the ICU trying to fight the virus. I've known this woman for 20+ years. She's been such a wonderful friend through the years and I hate to imagine how she struggled in those last few days. I'm broken today. I just needed to write it, make it real and get it off my chest so I can stop crying for the loss of an amazing woman who made everyone family. :crying:
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I am so sorry for your loss, Wendy! This whole thing is just so horrible and overwhelming. Prayers and hugs.
 
Sherri Tierney said:
There is so much talk of this being a big hoax and deaths being staged. It blows my mind that people can be so ridiculous. An acquaintance of ours died just over 2 weeks ago. The first in our state (I believe) from Covid. His wife was in quarantine. She stayed away from everyone for 2 weeks. It was officially over on Saturday. She said she didn't feel right and decided not to go out to the store for supplies like she had planned. On Sunday she said she couldn't taste her food well. No other real symptoms. Still though, having lost her husband to Covid, she wanted to be tested. They refused. Said she wasn't symptomatic so why test. She was probably being paranoid. Her son is a doctor and he tried to get her tested. Finally a university medical center agreed to test her. The positive came back today. While she has no real symptoms right now, she could have been out there spreading it. SO awful!
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This kind of talk, that it's a hoax or conspiracy, makes me so angry. The "normalcy bias" that a lot of people have is making it hard for them to believe that something like this is happening, but it is. It is happening to people we know all over the place. My sister-in-law is a nurse at a nursing home where covid is just wreaking havoc. She had to work the covid floor on her overnight shifts this past weekend, and it was horrible. People were dying and she was the only one on the floor besides one other nurse. All their other nurses are out sick with the virus, so they are extremely short-handed. She is brave, but this is so hard. Hugs!
 
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allyanne said:
This kind of talk, that it's a hoax or conspiracy, makes me so angry. The "normalcy bias" that a lot of people have is making it hard for them to believe that something like this is happening, but it is. It is happening to people we know all over the place. My sister-in-law is a nurse at a nursing home where covid is just wreaking havoc. She had to work the covid floor on her overnight shifts this past weekend, and it was horrible. People were dying and she was the only one on the floor besides one other nurse. All their other nurses are out sick with the virus, so they are extremely short-handed. She is brave, but this is so hard. Hugs!
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I'm sorry that your sister in law is in such a position. I will keep her in my thoughts and pray that she is unaffected by this virus as far as her health goes. It sounds like an awful situation. :(

The other day I scrolled through Facebook and I saw a post from an ex that was very conspiracy minded and I blocked him immediately. I also silently thanked the powers that be that he is an ex! LOL
 
allyanne said:
This kind of talk, that it's a hoax or conspiracy, makes me so angry. The "normalcy bias" that a lot of people have is making it hard for them to believe that something like this is happening, but it is. It is happening to people we know all over the place. My sister-in-law is a nurse at a nursing home where covid is just wreaking havoc. She had to work the covid floor on her overnight shifts this past weekend, and it was horrible. People were dying and she was the only one on the floor besides one other nurse. All their other nurses are out sick with the virus, so they are extremely short-handed. She is brave, but this is so hard. Hugs!
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I'm so sorry your SIL has to see what she does. I hope she stays safe and healthy and that hopefully soon we can put this behind us!
 
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